Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.Anna Deavere Smith
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra -
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
Manoj Bhargava -
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow -
Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
Zendaya -
Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
Harold Warner -
'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
Taylor Hicks
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
Harold E. Varmus -
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
Patrick Demarchelier -
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper -
I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
Zac Brown Band -
Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
Natalie Portman
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
Jack Lemmon -
You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
Vince Staples -
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
Questlove -
I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
Adam Lambert -
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
Paloma Faith
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I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song, 'Hallelujah'.
Leonard Cohen -
As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.
John Niven -
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
Cate Blanchett -
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
Anna Deavere Smith